Disclaimer: I do not own the Naruto series or its characters except Shina, Natsuke, Long, and Atsuki.
A/N: Sorry this series has taken a long pause. I am flushed away with cramming everything and trying to get my finals study guides all done. Another reason was that I was sucked into trying to finish a week segment for another story of mine.
Chapter 4- D.U.E.: Driving Under Emo-ism
A pair of legs ran as fast as they could away from Konohamaru's gang. Breath became out of line and guts are squeezing in against each other from the pressured velocity against the stomach. Akushi Natsuke's light brown hair was blown all the way to the back, and Natsuke himself jumped into a ditch in front of the oak tree.
"Darn it! Where's that Natsuke?" Konahamaru said, disgruntled and said," Where is he? We need his information on that hideout."
"Maybe he disappeared," concluded one of his friends.
"Man! Oh well… guess we'll have to wait later," Konohamaru said in a defeated expression.
Crawling through the ditch and coming up to a pile of rocks, Natsuke tapped on the rocks with his fists. A young boy emerged from the rocks, which he pushed away. Each looked around to see if anyone was following and then began to crawl into the tunnel. Natsuke carefully placed the rocks back in a tight pile and worked his way down on a ladder.
"What took you so long? The construction workers are getting restless with the delay."
"Sorry, sorry. I was on my way until Konohamaru's gang accosted me," Natsuke shrugged in an embarrassing position. "All three of them started asking questions so I had to try and lose them."
The two walked through a tunnel which had the ceiling dug high enough so anyone can walk upright. Instead of sunlight at the end of the tunnel, there was an underground village in function and still building itself up. The Natsuke family was a powerful and wealthy family just like the Uchihas or the Hyugas. During the family's pastime, any member of the family would all have the same pastime in common. That pastime was to train or "make use" of their muscles. The underground village construction was part of their pastime and a considerably favorite one for any Natsuke. The effort put into the arms and legs to create buildings and shape them with materials other than the earth, is really the creative strength of the mind and body of the Natsukes. The progress of the underground village is halfway built underneath Konoha and halfway built underneath the outside territory of the village.
"Okay guys, I'm here," Natsuke greeted the workers.
"About time… We're waiting for your ass to be hauled here for the test run," said the impatient Sashime, Akushi's older sister. "Now that you're here, can we please start the inspection on the slide?"
The slide undergoing inspection is the newest entrance to the village. The underground village is right now a private place with invited members. The Natsuke family also allows some families to move in due to possible overpopulation in some areas, but the village is mainly a hidden club in a sense. To avoid suspicion and to make the village a "normal-looking" one, a wide and tall building covers the giant spiral slide. Why are there windows on it if people can look through it? Many construction workers said of their proud work to be only seen through telescopes to peek through the windows. Security cameras were installed to monitor any possible infiltration, criminality escapes, or problems on the slide. Workers specialized to the only the slide, inspects any kind of errors everyday for 3-6 hours—3-8 or more hours if any damage is critical.
The slide is ridden by carts that slide down on it, and when the carts stop they are brought back up to the beginning. Latest technology at their current time allowed the development of elevators just for the carts. Any criminal or suspect attempting to climb up the slide can do it if they wanted to get run over.
"How's the slide functioning?" Natsuke asked.
"Well son, it's doing fine right now," replied his dad," All we need to do is look into the windows and cameras to do a check-up."
"Sir, Head of The Natsuke family, look at this," a construction worker said.
"What's the big deal? It's just a normal person riding down the slide," Sashime said, with a puzzled look.
"Yes madam, but look at him in audio too…"
The screen showed a teenager with some black eyeliner around his eyes. He raised his arms up and shouted gibberish with a happy face. But the face turned upside down as he put his arms down. "Dammit! Can't this damn cart go any faster?!" the teen complained. He took out a knife (somehow just there…) and started to jab into the slide's sides. The cart went exceedingly faster than at its limits and then went straight down to the end of the track.
"Holy moly! He's going to go straight down through the tracks!" one of the workers shouted down at the end of the tracks.
"Natsuke, take a look at what's going to happen next!" Sashime yelled as she picked up her binoculars she brought along.
The cart flew off of the ramp and hurled towards the building in front of it. The cart and the guy crashed into the building head on while many of them stared in shock.
"Ouch… that is the most craziest guy I've ever seen," Natsuke said.
"One of you workers," Natsuke's father said," Get down and call the ambulance."
"Well dad, what should we call this?"
"Call what Akushi?"
"This crime the guy did… I mean he did happen to vandalize the slide with his knife. He also destroyed one of our carts in that building along with his head."
"You're right, but there's no name for this kind of crime. The only name is vandalism…"
"How about D.U.E.?"
"D.U.E.?"
"Driving Under Emo-ism because he just happens to look like an emo."
"Okay, whatever you say… but it's not like it'll happen multiple times for it to be a crime name."
---- 3 weeks later… (And several more accidents since the first D.U.E. accident)----
"You know what Akushi? We'll make D.U.E. a legal crime name."
"Head Natsuke and Natsuke Akushi-sama, what should we do about this D.U.E. issue?" an inspection worker asked," At this rate, we'll have to close down the slide and give a huge renovation along with tighter security."
"Have you guys even tried to use a brake system?" Natsuke asked with a concerned look.
"Of course, you're a genius Natsuke-sama! Why didn't we think of that?"
'Because you guys couldn't even bother to use your heads, and think of a brake system like all of the other transportations made?' Natsuke thought as he rolled his eyes.
